People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOnly those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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